We're going to miss A Tribe Called Quest. If we've really seen the last of Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Jarobi (their "sometimes Y") as a group then we've lost one of the most influential and downright dopest rap acts ever. Their brand of jazzy, eclectic, and good-natured hip-hop left a mark on every

A Tribe Called Quest -- Jarobi included -- hit the stage Thursday night (Nov. 20) to open for Kanye West's Yeezus Tour at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. The performance held special weight because this is one of the group's final two performances.

The year was 1993. Hip-hop, only about 20 years old, was dipped in gold. It had reached around the world, a long journey from its origins as a culture created by the improvising youth of New York City. On Nov. 9, A Tribe Called Quest -- Q-Tip, Phife Dawg and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (by this point original member Jarobi had become the "sometimes 'Y'") -- delivered their third studio album, 'Midnight Marauders,’ a defining moment in rap's Golden Era.

The Yeezus tour has just become an "Award Tour." At least for lucky ticket holders in New York City it has. A Tribe Called Quest will join Kanye West in the New York tour stops at Barclays Center and Madison Square Garden. The legendary group consisting of Q-Tip Phife Dawg, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (and sometimes Jarobi) will alternate with Kendrick Lamar as a performer on those concerts.

Hip-hop and Valentine's Day go together like the cast members of Love & Hip-Hop. Which is to say, well, not that swimmingly. But whatever. Some of the genre's most enduring contributions, in any era, have been songs about the ladies. From A Trib

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